Erin is a young woman living in Belfast with a spiky relationship with her mother, and trying to deal with her grief after the death of her best friend. Waling away from her college degree, and drinking with friends while working as a nanny, Erin is trying to put the past behind her while hooking up with on again, off again love interest Mikey as well as developing a relationship with American professor Matt.

This kind of a coming of a age novel - there’s not a lot a plot but very character focused on Erin’s decisions from what she’s going to do with herself as well as how she actually treats herself from drink and drugs, as well as casual sex with two different men. Her relationship/sanctuary with religion is a touching part of the novel and I liked at one point when she’s talking to Matt about how in Belfast (or Ireland in general) you don’t have to necessarily be religious to go to a church to light a candle for someone.

I think I would have liked to have seen more happen between Erin and her mam as there were definitely a lot of things still unresolved by the end of the novel, and it’s a relationship that started the novel and is obviously a very hurtful one in Erin’s life.

I wish I would have liked this a little bit more. It was fine but it didn’t blow me away the way I thought it was going to be. I think people who like books like Snowflake by Louise Nealon or The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue might like this one as it follows the same vein of ‘messy gal trying to figure out where she’s going’ vibes.